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	Smart Personal Objects Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Microsoft has described its Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) initiative as being "aimed at improving the function of everyday objects through the injection of software".
		The MSN® Direct service is delivered across the United States and Canada over a network that is based on FM radio broadcast signals in about 100 metropolitan areas.
		A person who buys and wears a MSNDirect watch has accessorized him/herself with a SPOT watch is referred to by some as "He/She has been SPOTerized".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smart_Personal_Objects_Technology (185 words)

	Encyclopedia: Smart Personal Objects Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Mitchell: Smart Personal Objects are everyday objects, such as clocks, pens, key-chains and billfolds, that are made smarter, more personalized and more useful through the use of special software.
		Smart key-chains, of course, will have to be improved along different lines: they need to help people with the task of physical security, of locking and unlocking things.
		Smart Personal Objects, on the other hand, are simply enhanced along core functionality lines.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Smart-Personal-Objects-Technology (411 words)

	Microsoft Launches Smart Personal Object Technology Initiative: Q&A: As Bill Gates unveils -- at COMDEX Fall 2002 ...
		Microsoft Launches Smart Personal Object Technology Initiative: QandA: As Bill Gates unveils -- at COMDEX Fall 2002 -- a vision of everyday objects that work seamlessly to improve peoples' daily lives, the general manager of Microsoft's Smart Personal Technology Group explains the thinking behind the technology.
		It's important to note that Smart Personal Objects are not meant to compete with or take the place of these more traditional computing devices, but to actually complement them.
		There are a lot of different ways to make Smart Pens, but we can envision one of normal size and weight, which still writes on plain paper with normal ink, but also has the ability to transfer this information back to a PC for recognition and storage.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/features/2002/nov02/11-17SPOT.mspx (1654 words)

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		These first "smart watches," to be created by international watchmakers Citizen, Fossil and Suunto, are built on Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), a new technology platform designed to improve the functionality and usefulness of everyday objects.
		The SPOT watch display is no larger than these, and I believe this is an opportune time for watches that combine this kind of form and function.
		SPOT technology, which supports a 96x120 pixel screen, is great because we get at-a-glance readings in a much smaller screen.
	www.skyaid.org /LifeWatch/microsoft-watch.htm (2306 words)

	Archived: The Evolution of Learning Devices
		Smart objects, with embedded microprocessors and wireless networking, explain their own functioning and help us create "articulate" educational environments that communicate with their inhabitants.
		If smart objects, information infrastructures, and shared synthetic environments are not incorporated into public school classrooms, teachers may find a decade from now that they have a smaller fraction of students enrolled and fewer taxpayers willing to provide funding.
		Through the evolution of smart objects, information infrastructures, and shared synthetic environments, our society is encountering powerful new interactive media capable of great good or ill. Today's "couch potatoes," vicariously living in the fantasy world of television, could become tomorrow's "couch funguses," immersed as protagonists in 3-D soap operas while the real world deteriorates.
	www.ed.gov /Technology/Futures/dede.html (5130 words)

	PCWorld.com - Next: News, Sports, and Weather on Your Wristwatch
		The network technology is part of Microsoft's ambitious Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) initiative, previewed last year at the Comdex trade show.
		SPOT is designed to deliver continuous, real-time information across a low-bandwidth wireless network to myriad everyday consumer devices such as watches, refrigerator magnets, wallets, and alarm clocks.
		Other smart objects that may ship by early 2005 are pens, wallets, key chains, and "smart buttons" with LCD displays.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,108581,00.asp (1249 words)

	MobileTechNews - Microsoft Presents SPOT-Based Wristwatches at CES
		"Microsoft's vision with Smart Personal Objects Technology is to improve people's lives by making everyday objects smarter and better at their core functions," said Bill Mitchell, founder and general manager of the SPOT initiative at Microsoft.
		The class of Smart Personal Objects includes watches and a host of other products such as alarm clocks, key chains and refrigerator-magnet clocks that are able to receive high-value, personalized information that is time-, location- and context-relevant.
		Smart Personal Object Technology-based devices are built on a computing infrastructure developed from the ground up in Microsoft Research.
	www.mobiletechnews.com /info/2003/01/10/001117.html (561 words)

	SPOT On?: An Analysis of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology Initiative : Market Research Report
		SPOT On?: An Analysis of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology Initiative
		The Microsoft Smart Personal Objects (SPOT) initiative emerged to the public eye at the COMDEX trade show in November 2002.
		SPOT is the first major strategy to drive glanceable and referenceable wireless data into lifestyle applications, from watches to magnets, with the potential to extend to vehicles, mobile devices, signs, and a variety of other objects.
	www.marketresearch.com /map/prod/1008024.html (267 words)

	Product Contributions
		Technologies from the Cryptography and Anti-Piracy Group were used to create security enhancements and provide increased protection against software piracy.
		Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) is a special project incubated within Microsoft Research focused on making everyday devices (e.g., wristwatches) better at what they do, and enabling them to provide timely, personalized information in a convenient, "glanceable" format.
		Technologies that build probabilistic models can be used to predict and anticipate users' behavior, preferences and needs, allowing software to automatically customize itself to a particular user.
	research.microsoft.com /aboutmsr/pastpresentfuture/contributions.aspx (2051 words)

	PCWorld.com - Microsoft SPOT Watches Hit Stores
		Wristwatches and wireless services based on Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology won't be on sale in time for the holidays, but they are coming soon.
		Smart Personal Objects Technology, or SPOT, uses a portion of the FM broadcast radio networks to deliver snippets of information about weather, news, stock prices, and sports scores to wristwatches equipped with the technology.
		The technology was first announced at CES in January 2003, and SPOT watches were originally supposed to go on sale from Fossil and other watchmakers in time for the holiday shopping season.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,113897,00.asp (589 words)

	CNN.com - 'Smart sofa' aimed at couch potatoes - Nov. 22, 2003
		Their research continues to move technology away from the personal computer and into mobile gadgets.
		Microsoft chairman Bill Gates believes SPOT could eventually power a whole slew of gadgets, but for now the software giant has developed only the smart watch, and prototypes of souped-up alarm clocks and refrigerator magnets.
		The same technology also could, for example, let staff in assisted-living facilities know when an Alzheimer's patient wanders away from his or her bed.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/ptech/09/22/smart.sofa (777 words)

	Q&A: Microsoft and Watch-making Partners Announce First Smart Personal Objects Technology Wristwatches: The new ...
		QandA: Microsoft and Watch-making Partners Announce First Smart Personal Objects Technology Wristwatches: The new technology platform lets watchmakers create a new class of timepiece with continuous access to Web-based news and information.
		Mitchell (Microsoft): The SPOT initiative is committed to improving the core function of everyday devices through the addition of software.
		Colliander (Suunto): SPOT was a natural for Suunto because all of our instruments are interconnected through a PC and to the Internet.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/features/2003/jan03/01-09SPOTWatches.asp (2452 words)

	Microsoft puts the Web on your wrist \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) products are household and personal items--such as refrigerators or portable stereos--that can receive and display information from the Internet beamed over a nationwide FM radio network.
		SPOT first came to light before the Comdex computer trade show last November.
		SPOT products and services likely will be marketed in a variety of ways.
	news.com.com /2100-1041-1012726.html (799 words)

	Microsoft readies SPOT information broadcast service \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2003-06-05 \| By Joris Evers, IDG News Service
		SPOT watch buyers will be able to select from a menu of information, including news, stock quotes, weather, traffic, and restaurant guides, the Redmond, Wash., vendor said.
		Analysts are enthusiastic about SPOT and say it probably won't be a dog, even though similar services have failed in the past.
		The main differences between the MessageWatch and SPOT watches are the network connection and advances in low-power radio receivers that make for more powerful receivers and longer battery life, according to Doherty, himself once a MessageWatch user.
	www.infoworld.com /article/03/06/05/HNmsspot_1.html (1557 words)

	PCWorld.com - Microsoft Shares Smart Watch Details
		SPOT watch buyers will be able to select from a menu of information, including news, stock quotes, weather, traffic and restaurant guides.
		Analysts are enthusiastic about SPOT and say it may succeed where similar services have failed in the past.
		The main differences between the MessageWatch and SPOT watches are the network connection and advances in low-power radio receivers that enable more powerful receivers and longer battery life, says Doherty, himself once a MessageWatch user.
	msn.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,111035,00.asp (708 words)

	Microsoft Smart Personal Object Technology Information SPOT
		The Oregon Scientific Weather Station is the first non-watch SPOT device to be made available.
		SPOT watches with MSN Direct service are being used in a test with 50 seniors who take eight or more medications per day.
		The test is being conducted to see if a text message sent through the service to a SPOT watch acts as a sufficient reminder to keep on a medication schedule.
	www.spotstop.com (944 words)

	Smart Personal Objects - Home
		Smart Personal Objects Technology makes everyday objects such as wristwatches, alarm clocks, and key chains, better at what they do.
		Smart wristwatches, the first devices in the category, will be available in fall of 2003.
		Smart enough to give you the timeand a whole lot more.
	research.microsoft.com /spo (158 words)

	Smart watches tell Microsoft time - ZDNet UK News
		Wristwatches embedded with Microsoft's smart technology are expected to appear in US retail stores next month, in a move that comes after a delay of several months, a company spokesman said on Tuesday.
		Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) and its subscription-based MSN Direct service will power the wristwatches, along with other devices to be released in the future.
		The much-hyped technology and watches were initially set to launch in the fall.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39118611,00.htm (358 words)

	Microsoft and National Semiconductor Create Chip Set To Power Smart Personal Objects Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative is designed to provide customizable information on a host of smart personal objects that consumers use every day.
		Developers in Microsoft Research's Smart Personal Objects group have worked with National Semiconductor for more than two years to plan, design and build this chip set.
		Combining real-world analog and state-of-the-art digital technology, the company is focused on the fast-growing markets for wireless handsets, displays, information infrastructure and information appliances.
	www.national.com /news/item/0,1735,817,00.html (525 words)

	What is the Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT) initiative?
		At COMDEX Fall 2002 in Las Vegas, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced his company's Smart Personal Objects Technology ("SPOT"), an initiative whose focus is described by Microsoft as "improving the function of everyday objects through the injection of software."
		According to Microsoft, SPOT includes a range of new technologies including a low-distraction user interface, a new operating system platform, and new communications capabilities that have been developed in the labs of Microsoft Research (MSR).
		To introduce SPOT, and to explain Smart Personal Objects and why this technology is significant, Microsoft has published the following Q&A with by Bill Mitchell, general manager of the Microsoft Personal Objects Group.
	www.windowsfordevices.com /news/NS2021163187.html (1677 words)

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	www.reallycleverhomes.co.uk (583 words)

	MSN Direct to Premiere Movie Listings on Smart Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		"Smart Watches are all about bringing fun and timely information to people while they are on the go.
		MSN Direct* subscribers can easily glance at their Smart Watch for the next showing of their favorite flick, without having to call the theater, check the newspaper or access a computer.
		MSN Direct, part of the Smart Personal Objects Technology initiative, is a new, specialized wireless service that combines technology and fashion to deliver customized and personalized information to people.
	www.forrelease.com /D20041105/sff011.P1.11052004085342.03840.html (464 words)

	DirectBand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		DirectBand™ is a North American wireless datacast network owned and operated by Microsoft.
		DirectBand is a product of the Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) team at Microsoft.
		MSN Direct is the consumer brand that Microsoft uses for devices that receive content from the DirectBand network.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DirectBand (234 words)

	Tissot offers MSN Direct watches \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2004-07-26 \| By Joris Evers, IDG News Service
		Citizen Watch Co. was also supposed to offer SPOT timepieces, but although it builds parts for the Fossil products, Citizen has yet to deliver on any of its own models.
		SPOT uses a portion of the FM broadcast radio networks to deliver snippets of information to wristwatches equipped with the technology.
		To make SPOT watches more attractive, Microsoft will add more content to the MSN Direct service, including information on movies and football, and watch makers are expected to offer more styles by year's end, Schneider said.
	infoworld.com /article/04/07/26/HNmsnwatches_1.html?OPERATINGSYSTEMS (1207 words)

	Microsoft spots new opportunities in smart devices
		LAS VEGAS: Transforming everyday objects so that they recognize shifting personal preferences is the eventual goal of a new Microsoft Corp. effort that started with smart watches.
		Microsoft's goal with its "smart object" initiative, Rashid said, is to "be able to have the things around you be knowledgeable about you and be knowledgeable about each other." Rashid, who was previously a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said SPOT will only work if the devices don't over-reach in terms of functionality.
		Beyond smart objects, Rashid said his group was also doing research into data storage and archiving.
	www.ciol.com /content/news/repts/103011003.asp (486 words)

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		In the financial markets, If you are spot trading or trading spot you are buying/selling for immediate delivery rather than for future delivery, see for example foreign exchange spot trading.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spot.html (152 words)

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